Improvement in fruit-boxes



G. O. COLE. Fruit-Box.

No. 207,347. Patented Aug. 21,1878.

N. PETERS. FHOTOUTHOGRAPHER. WASHINGTON. D C

UNITED STATES PATENT OEFIoE.

GEORGE O. COLE, OF HILLSDALE, NEW JERSEY.

IMPROVEMENT IN FRUIT-BOXES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 207,347, dated August27, 1878 application filed June 18, 1878.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE 0. (low, of Hillsdale, Bergen county, Stateof New J ersoy, have invented a new and Improved Fruit- Venders Dish, ofwhich the following is a specification:

Figure 1 represents a vertical view of the blank, made of thin wood,veneer, or other flexible materiahfrom which the dish is formed. Fig. 2represents a lateral perspective view of the dish. Fig. 3 represents aperspective view of the same.

Fruit-boxes have heretofore been constructed of a blank out out in onepiece by a single blow of a die, and provided with corner flaps or wingsprovided with slits brought to register with each other, through whichthe tongues of central flaps or wings pass from the outside of the box.

My invention is intended to improve the above described construction ofboxes or dishes by introducing the tongues into the registered slitsfrom the inside of the box or dish in stead of the outside, whereby thetongue has end supports in the flaps or wings, and the weight of thefruit or other material in the box forces the tongues into the slits,and they are supported by the wings or flaps, whereas if they (thetongues) are introduced from the outside, the weight of the material inthe box presses the tongues out, and in the construction alluded to haveno support from the win gs or flaps. It will also be perceived that inmy construction of dish the tongues and flaps are so curved that theopenings between the wings or flaps are entirely closed.

To this end my invention consists of a fruitdish having wings 0r flapsprovided with slits through which the tongues pass from the inside, ashereinafter more fully described.

I stamp the material of which the dish is to be formed substantially asshown in Fig. 1, and at the same time punch in each of the outer wings,X X X X, any kind of elongated holes, A A A A, the greater diameters ofwhich are exactly parallel with the outer lines of the wings X X X X.

The central tongues B B may of course be cut in a cuneiform, curved, orother similar shape, which will give a point or blunted point on a broadbase. I prefer the shape shown in Fig. 1 and marked B O. The pointed endof the tongue B B I terminate preferably on a line with the holes A A,though it is obvious the point may be a trifle shorter or indefinitelylonger.

To fasten the dish and permanently hold it in shape I fold the outeredges of the wings X X X X 011 either end together until the holes A Aon each end are brought directly over each other. I then bend thetongues B B in such manner as to introduce their points 0 0 through theholes AA and A A. When the tongues B B are flattened with the points inthis position the dish is at once firmly pin-ned together and stiffenedwithout the aid of any other appliance.

The dish before forming may be transported in flat sheets and puttogether at a moments notice without the aid of any tools or machinery.

WVhat I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is

As a new article of manufacture, the dish herein described, consistingof the body F, having the wings X X at each of its opposite ends, saidwings being provided with openin gs A A, registering with each other,through which the pointed ends O of the end tongues {B, respectively,pass from the inside of the "dish, as herein set forth.

GEO. O. COLE.

Witnesses:

M. GoLnsTEIN, J. W. lVIAYNARD.

